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Also Like Life Blicken Auf Die Urbane Gegenwart Taipehs, Andere Auf Chinesische Bordelle in Der Frühphase Des 20 4 DIE FILME VON HOU HSIAO0HSIEN DIE FILME VON HOU HSIAO0HSIEN 5 der Bruch mit den Studios. Gemeinsam mit einer Gruppe befreundeter Filmemacher begründete er das Neue Taiwanesische Kino, das in den Folgejahren persön- lichere, experimentellere Formen des Filmschaffens erkundete. Bevor er sich den historischen Stoffen zuwandte, drehte Hou eine Serie von Filmen, die von eigenen Jugenderlebnissen inspiriert waren und in denen er Schritt für Schritt jene lyrische, antidramati- sche filmische Form etablierte, die sein Schaffen bis heute prägt. Die Filme, die Hou ab Mitte der 1990er Jahre verwirk- lichte, lassen sich nicht mehr thematisch oder stilis- tisch gruppieren; tatsächlich stellt jeder einzelne einen ganz eigenen ästhetischen Entwurf dar. Manche Also like Life blicken auf die urbane Gegenwart Taipehs, andere auf chinesische Bordelle in der Frühphase des 20. Jahr- Die Filme von Hou Hsiao-hsien hunderts. Zweimal unternimmt Hou Ausflüge über die taiwanesischen Landesgrenzen, nach Japan und Frankreich. Mit seinem neuesten Film The Assassin Hou Hsiao-hsien wurde im Jahr 1947 in der südchine- kehrt er schließlich zu seinen Anfängen im populären sischen Guangdong-Provinz geboren. Schon als er ein Genrekino zurück. Jahr alt ist, flieht er mit seiner Familie vor den Schre- Die Filmreihe Also like Life – Die Filme von Hou Hsiao- cken des Bürgerkriegs nach Taiwan, wo ein Jahr später hsien , die das Zeughauskino in Zusammenarbeit mit von der regierenden Kuomintang-Partei das Kriegs- Richard I. Suchenski (Center for Moving Image Arts at recht ausgerufen wird. Die Ereignisse jener Jahre, in Bard College) und der Deutschen Kinemathek orga- denen unzählige Menschen im Krieg fielen oder von nisiert, ermöglicht es erstmals in Berlin, dieses viel- Geheimdiensten beseitigt wurden, prägen Taiwan in gestaltige Werk, das die „Zeichen der Geschichte“ vielerlei Hinsicht bis heute; und ebenso das Kino Hou (Rainer Rother) immer wieder neu anordnet, in seiner Hsiao-hsiens, des größten taiwanesischen Regisseurs. Gänze zu erkunden. Bis auf The Assassin werden alle In Europa ist Hou vor allem durch seine 1989 mit A City Langfilme auf Zelluloidmaterial vorgeführt, zum Teil of Sadness begonnene historische Trilogie bekannt in eigens für diese Werkschau gezogenen Kopien. geworden, die als eine Art filmische Traumaaufarbei- Also like Life wurde in Zusammenarbeit mit der Deutschen tung verstanden werden kann: Der Regisseur interes- Kinemathek - Museum für Film und Fernsehen, dem Taipei siert sich gerade nicht für die bloße Ereignisgeschich- Culture Center, dem Taiwan Film Institute und dem Kultur- ministerium der Republik China (Taiwan) organisiert. Eine zur te, sondern für die Narben, die die Vergangenheit im Retrospektive erschienene englischsprachige Monografie kollektiven Gedächtnis, aber auch in individuellen über Hou Hsiao-hsien ist zum Preis von 22 € an der Kinokasse erhältlich. Biografien hinterlassen hat. Wo sich andere Historien- filme zu allwissenden Richtern über die Geschichte aufspielen, wird bei Hou der Akt des Erinnerns selbst prekär. Freilich repräsentiert die historische Trilogie nur einen kleinen Teil dieses einmaligen Werks. Hou hatte seine Karriere bereits 1980 begonnen, zunächst noch in- mitten der taiwanesischen Filmindustrie. 1983 folgte 6 DIE FILME VON HOU HSIAO0HSIEN DIE FILME VON HOU HSIAO0HSIEN 7 Tong nien wang shi Er zi de da wan ou A Time to Live, a Time to Die The Sandwich Man RC 456L, R: Hou Hsiao-hsien, B: Chu Tien-wen, D: Yu An-shun, Tien Feng, RC 456Q, R: Hou Hsiao-hsien, Tseng Chuang-hsiang, Wan Jen, B: Wu Nien-jen, Mei Fang, Tang Ju-yun, Hsiao Ai, Hsin Shu-fen, 4Q6' · 35 mm, OmeU D: Chen Po-cheng, Yang Li-yin, 4TU' · 35 mm, OmeU DI 26.52. um 65 Uhr · Eröffnung der Retrospektive mit Rainer Rother FR 2M.52. um 2N.35 Uhr und Thomas Arslan Unter den vier großen autobiografisch inspirierten Filmen, die Hou in den 1980er Jahren gedreht hat, ist A Time to Live, a Time to Die der hemmungslos emotionalste. In dem Coming-of-Age-Drama um den kratzbürstigen Teenager Ah Hsiao fließen die Tränen gleich literweise - der um drei Todesfälle herum inszenierte Film enthält einige der eindrücklichsten Heulszenen der Filmgeschichte. Hous Inszenierung drückt allerdings ihrerseits keineswegs auf die Tränendrüse: Der Tod ist ein Teil des Lebens und verwandelt sich mit der Zeit genauso in eine Erinnerung wie die von der Großmutter zubereitete Lieblings- mahlzeit oder der Baum vor dem Haus der Nachbarn. A Time to Live, a Time to Die ist ein früher Höhepunkt im Schaffen des Regisseurs Ein Schlüsselwerk der jüngeren taiwanesischen Filmgeschichte. und Hous erste Zusammenarbeit mit dem Kameramann Lee Ping Bin, Gemeinsam mit seinen Kollegen Wan Jen und Tseng Chuang-hsiang dessen malerisch ausgeleuchtete Teleobjektivfotografie seinem dreht Hou 1983 einen Omnibusfilm, der eine neue Form des Film- Werk seither eine unverwechselbare Textur verleiht. (lf) schaffens ankündigt: Alltagsgeschichten statt Genreformeln, location shooting statt Studiokulisse, auch: Freundschaftsnetzwerke statt Hai shang hua Filmindustrie. Alle drei Episoden von The Sandwich Man spielen in den Flowers of Shanghai 1960er Jahren, zu Zeiten des Kalten Kriegs. RC/J 4556, R: Hou Hsiao-hsien, B: Chu Tien-wen, D: Tony Leung, Michiko Hada, Hous Beitrag eröffnet den Film und gibt ihm den Titel: Es geht um Carina Lau, Jack Kao, Michelle Reis, Rebecca Pan, Vicky Wei, 44I' · 35 mm, OmeU einen Mann, der als lebende Werbetafel einen Sandwich-Shop MI 23.52. um 65 Uhr + SO 2:.52. um 65.35 Uhr anpreist. Auch die anderen beiden Episoden handeln von Geschäfts- Ein Ausnahmefilm in Hous Filmo- und Tauschbeziehungen: Zunächst verkaufen zwei Freunde defektes grafie, ein wunderschön foto- Kochzubehör, dann versucht ein Mann, aus einem von einem US- grafiertes Werk der unbedingten Soldaten verursachten Unfall Profit zu schlagen. Diese letzte Episode Stilisierung: Der komplett im verärgert konservative Politiker, sie wird zum ersten Skandalfilm Studio entstandene Flowers of des Neuen Taiwanesischen Kinos. (lf) Shanghai erweckt ein chinesi- sches Rotlichtviertel aus der Zeit um die vorletzte Jahrhundertwen- de zum Leben. Fließende Kamerabewegungen zeigen und verbergen zugleich das Schicksal von fünf Prostituierten. Die Frauen sind der männlichen Willkür zwar letzten Endes schutzlos ausgeliefert, den- noch verläuft jede Lebenslinie ein wenig anders – und auch die Freier müssen erkennen, dass die opiumgeschwängerte Gegenwelt der Bordelle kein Ausweg, sondern eine Sackgasse ist. Die Vergangenheit, in die Flowers of Shanghai entführt, ist nicht mehr dieselbe, von der die Filme der historischen Trilogie erzählen. Es gibt aus diesen rötlich- ocker-gefärbten Bildern, aus dieser versiegelten Zeit des ewigen erzwungenen Liebesdienstes kein Entkommen, keinen Überschlag in die Gegenwart. (lf) 8 DIE FILME VON HOU HSIAO0HSIEN DIE FILME VON HOU HSIAO0HSIEN 9 Jiu shi liu liu de ta Zai na he pan qing cao qing Cute Girl The Green, Green Grass of Home RC 456T, R/B: Hou Hsiao-hsien, D: Kenny Bee, Feng Fei-fei, Anthony Chan, 5T' RC 456I, R/B: Hou Hsiao-Hsien, D: Kenny Bee, Chiang Ling, Chen Mei-feng, 54' · 35 mm, OmeU · 16 mm, OmeU FR 2M.52. um 62 Uhr SA 2U.52. um 62 Uhr Der dritte und letzte Film, den Hou mit Kantopop-Superstar Kenny Bee unter den Bedingungen des kommerziellen Starkinosystems gedreht hat, ist, was Bildsprache und erzählerischen Rhythmus angeht, schon nah an jenen Werken, mit denen der Regisseur unmit- telbar danach das Neue Taiwanesische Kino begründete: Eine mit leichter Hand skizzierte und ein weiteres Mal mit eingängigen Musik- einlagen unterfütterte Romanze zweier Lehrer (Bee und Chiang Ling) steht nur nominell im Zentrum, faktisch tritt sie über weite Strecken Gleich in seinem ersten Film verschlägt es Hou Hsiao-hsien an seinen in den Hintergrund zugunsten atemberaubender Naturaufnahmen Lieblingsschauplatz, in die ländliche taiwanesische Provinz. Das und rührender Miniaturen aus dem Leben der Schüler. Die wendige Cute Girl des Titels ist Wenqi Pan (Feng Fei-fei), Tochter aus reichem Regie und das ungezwungene Spiel der jungen Darsteller haben den Haus, die den Sohn eines Geschäftspartners ihres Vaters heiraten soll Filmwissenschaftler und Hou-Verehrer David Bordwell dazu veran- – dann aber erst einmal ihre Tante auf dem Land besucht und dort lasst, The Green, Green Grass of Home mit den Jugendkomödien des den Landvermesser Daigang Gu (Kenny Bee) kennen lernt. Bald muss Japaners Yasujirō Ozu zu vergleichen. (lf) das Paar die im taiwanesischen Kino dieser Zeit oft gestellte Frage beantworten, ob ihre junge Liebe dem familiären Druck standhalten Bei qing cheng shi kann. A City of Sadness Hous Debüt gehorcht auf den ersten Blick ganz den Regeln der kom- RC/HK 4565, R: Hou Hsiao-hsien, B: Chu Tien-wen, Wu Nien-je, D: Li Tien-lu, Chen merziellen taiwanesischen Filmindustrie seiner Zeit. Die gelegentlich Sung-yung, Jack Kao, Tony Leung, Hsin Shu-fen, 4L6' · 35 mm, OmeU sentimentale, meist jedoch erfreulich schwungvolle romantische DI 2W.52. um 65 Uhr Komödie mit musikalischen Einlagen ist von den Produzenten vor Am 28. Februar 1947 schlugen Truppen der nationalistischen allem als Vehikel für den männlichen Hauptdarsteller Kenny Bee an- Kuomintang-Bewegung äußerst blutig einen Aufstand nieder, dem gelegt, einen bis heute im gesamten chinesischen Sprachraum er- sich große Teile der taiwanesischen Bevölkerung angeschlossen folgreichen Popstar. Hous Regie ist schon in diesem grundsympathi- hatten. Dieses traumatische Datum sowie die nachfolgenden bleier- schen Debüt elegant und aufmerksam, erhebt sich nie über
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